Best 292 quotes in «tennis quotes» category

Dreams do come true if you keep believing in yourself. Anything is possible.

Duffers who consistently shank their balls are urged to buy and study Shanks - No Thanks by R.K. Hoffman, or in extreme cases, M.S. Howard's excellent Tennis for Beginners.

Every generation has its own Goran. So I was the Goran of this generation.

Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.

Equipment's the biggest change. And the guys have been getting bigger, stronger, more athletic - so the game has become more of a track meet instead of a tennis match, in a sense.

Everybody is great and the chemistry is different with everyone. That is the joy of acting - you really don't know how it is going to go until you turn up. It's like playing tennis, you can't plan for the match you are going to play until you are actually up against your opponent and what happens, happens. That is the joy of being on set.

Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

Every stroke a tennis player plays is different, yet we perceive them as playing in a distinctive and unique way. It's what Heidegger called a certain 'how' of existing. It's ultimately always singular, and the double task of (a) getting it in view and (b) communicating it to others will inevitably be marked more often by failure than success!

Everything is possible in this life.

Greatest thing in life: Winning a tennis match. Second greatest thing in life: Losing a tennis match

Every time I hit the ball on the wall I uses to pretend I was there (Wimbledon). When I went to sleep I used to pretend I was there.

From now until the end of the year I would like to eke out one victory, that's my short term aim. I am sure I can be competitive in 2004. Tennis is like riding a bike, you never forget how to do it.

Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.

He knew what the Beats know and what the great tennis player knows, son: learn to do nothing, with your whole head and body, and everything will be done by what's around you.

I actually wanted to be a tennis player.

Henman and Coria have met three times in the past and they've won one apiece.

He [Roger Federer] is the greatest natural talent in tennis I've ever seen. I love to watch the guy play, he's an awesome talent

I always have a Sharpie, because usually when someone asks me for an autograph, they don't have a pen. I carry one in my purse, as well as in my tennis bag.

I am afraid of a lot of things. A dog. I could be afraid of a dog that's upset, for example. And on the tennis courts, maybe on the outside I look fearless, but on the inside, I'm scared. There's not one player in the world who isn't nervous before matches. Especially important matches.

I am sure every writer has this and probably every newscaster, that people are always coming up to me and saying, my daughter wants to do what you do, my godson, my tennis partner.

I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldnt have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.

I am the greatest tennis player. The other players are like coins in my pocket that I give to a homeless man.

I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.

I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.

I did a really good job of sticking to the tennis court.

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

I did realize more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.

I don't make a habit of watching tennis matches, but I try to watch all the major finals. I try to make time for that. So unless I have something going with the kids where I can't, I try to watch, and I enjoy that.

I don't know if tennis players feel like that but when you have a great opponent - although I didn't feel like he [ Ben Mendelsohn ] was an opponent - you just know your game is going to jack up and it's just going to raise the bar. I couldn't wait for that elevation.

I don't need to come back to Wimbledon every year because I can't live without it. I'd be totally cool without tennis.

I don't make friends with the girls I'm playing against. It would be too painful to beat them.

I don't want to live and die with every point that's being played out there now. I'm going to let my coach live and die with every point.

I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.

I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That's no contribution to society. [Tennis] was purely selfish; that was for me.

I feel lucky to live at a time when the dominant tennis players are Venus and Serena Williams. And to have lived through the success of a whole slew of boxers and feel I could invest emotionally and psychologically in their victories, and identify with them in their struggles.

I'd rather be No. 2 in Chile and No. 1 in the world.

I'd rather play tennis than go to the dentist. I'd rather play soccer than go to the doctor. I'd rather play Hurk than go to work. Hurk? Hurk? What's Hurk? I don't know but it MUST be better than work!

I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing... oh yes and swimming.

I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn't stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper.

I felt better being in the background. That's the way I like it.

If I don't do what I need to do to win, I won't win, no matter who is on the other side of the net.

If I wore a sleeveless shirt, people would try to feed me after the match.

If I have a daughter and she plays tennis, and I have a son who plays tennis, I wouldn't say that my son deserves more money because he's a man. I would say they deserve the same amount of money.

If I'm nervous, it means I had to work hard to get there, whether it's playing in a tournament or speaking at an event. So I try to stop and be proud of getting to live in that moment.

If you give me a short shot I will attack you. I'm not a baseliner who rallies. I try to get the point over with.

If somebody says I am better than Roger, I think this person doesn't know anything about tennis.

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment.

If someone says tennis is not feminine, I say screw it.

If you don't do something special against Chris Evert you find yourself losing concentration after 35 shots.

If you want to be a tennis player, then mould yourself on Roger Federer. I won three Wimbledon titles and I wish I could play like him.